Level 4 Diploma in Innovation and Future Foresight

Foresight is a discipline with tools, and that is the case this diploma makes. Innovation and Growth in Organisations and The Innovative Mind-set open with why organisations stagnate and what the alternative looks like from the inside. Principles of Research and Testing Innovative Ideas then supplies the method, Future Foresight is the unit that gives the programme its name, and Change Management for Innovation and Future Foresight and Innovation, Information Technology and Future Foresight look at making ideas stick and at technology as a driver.

Our data lists a unit titled Developing Innovative Business Cases Innovation in Action, which appears to be two titles run together in the awarding body's material; LSPM treats it as a business-case unit with a practical strand and will confirm the exact title on your enrolment paperwork. The learners who thrive here tend to work in planning, policy, product or improvement roles and want to bring a structured foresight process back to the office. It is a less common Level 4 title than business management and slightly more demanding in its reading. Qualifi's entry note mentions work experience in governmental and non-governmental sectors, which reflects where the demand has come from.

Qualifi sets the entry requirements for this qualification and LSPM, as the approved centre, applies them when it assesses your application. As published by the awarding body:

• learners who possess qualifications at Level 3 and/or;
• learners who have work experience in the governmental and non-governmental sector anddemonstrate ambition with clear career goals.

Source: the Qualifi specification. If you are not sure whether your qualification counts as equivalent, send us the details and we will put the question to LSPM's admissions team, who make the decision.

A Level 3 qualification or relevant work experience with clear career goals is what Qualifi asks for. We would add that you need to be comfortable reading reports and forming a view, because the assignments ask for judgement as well as description.

Written assignments for each unit, with the foresight unit assessed through a scenario report on an organisation or sector of your choosing. There are no exams; check with LSPM how feedback works before each final submission.

Assignments are set and marked by LSPM's tutors, moderated within LSPM and sampled by Qualifi before LSPM claims certificates. Draft feedback and resubmission arrangements are LSPM's own practice; confirm them at enrolment. How assessment works in full.

A Qualifi Level 5 diploma in business or management, since this title does not continue at Level 5 in LSPM's current range.

An application for year-two entry to a degree in business, innovation or strategy, at the university's discretion.

Roles in strategy, improvement, policy or product development where a structured approach to the future is valued.